YOUTH’S DELUSION.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1923, Page 4

YOUTH’S DELUSION.

BAID HE MURDERED GIRL. NO GROUNDS FOR REPORT. By Telegraph.—Preu Association Ashburton, Last Night. The police investigated Kissel’s state* ment that he had murdered a girl named Elsie Prestidge, a former schoolmate. No such girl is known to be residing in Canterbury and the statement is believed to be a delusion, especially as Kissel at night-time raves about killing horses. The victim McKenzie was buried in the Coldstream estate cemetery to-day in accordance with the custom for all employees who die. VICTIM OF THE MURDER. SON OF CELEBRATED BISHOP. QUIET LIFE IN COLONIES. Christchurch, Last Night. A correspondent writes as follows to this morning’s Press: “As an old friend of the man found shot at Mr. John Studholme’s house, I would like to say that deceased, James Henry Turing Mackenzie (not McKenzie), was the son of the celebrated Bishop Christopher Wordsworth. He was born in the palace adjoining the beautiful. Cathedral of Lincoln and was the youngest child of a family of ten children. He was related to and connected with some of England’s and Scotland’s noblest families, but being opposed to all studious work and of an adventurous spirit he left home early and wandered through America and Canada for many years, later coming to Australia. “He attached himself to the ‘Bush Brotherhood,’ with whom he stayed until shortly before the time when he devoted himself to the care of patients afflicted with leprosy at Quail Island? Always poor in worldly goods he knew no luxury whatever except in giving and no charity connected with his beloved Anglican church appealed to his generous heart in vain. So ascetic were his tastes that he even foreswore the of tobacco that he might have more to spend on others.”